Animals Sealed in Stone

There are many documented cases of toads, frogs, lizards and other small animals inexplicably found encased within solid rock and wood -- alive! These amphibious enigmas are one of the most perplexing mysteries of nature. Here are some of those astonishing true accounts, many recorded by prestigious scientific journals. Read about these fascinating mysteries.

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Animals Sealed in Stone

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Live toads and frogs have also popped out from inside impossible tight and enclosed spaces within trees that were being cut open:

• Toad in an elm tree. The French Academy of Sciences published an account in a 1719 edition of it Memories of the felling of a large elm tree. In the exact center of the trunk, about four feet above the root, was found "a live toad, middle-sized but lean and filling up the whole vacant space."
• 68 toads in a tree. The Uitenhage Times of South Africa in 1876 printed the experience of timbermen who were cutting a tree into planks, when deep inside of it a hole was found containing 68 small toads, each about the size of a grape. "They were of a light brown, almost yellow color, and perfectly healthy, hopping about and away as if nothing had happened. All about them was solid yellow wood, with nothing to indicate how they could have got there, how long they had been there, or how they could have lived without food, drink, or air."

Odder still, it is not just natural stone and trees in which these impossibles occur:

• Toad in a plaster wall. When a castle wall was being demolished in September 1770, a live toad was plucked from the solid plaster. That wall had stood undisturbed for more than 40 years.
• Frogs in a concrete floor. Renowned biologist Julian Huxley received a letter from a gas fitter in Devonshire, England, who had broken up some concrete flooring to install some pipe extensions: "My mate was at work with a sledge hammer when he dropped it suddenly and said, 'That looks like a frog's leg.' We both bent down and there was the frog. [The] sledge was set aside and I cut the rest of the block carefully. We released 23 perfectly formed but minute frogs which all hopped away to the flower garden."
• Turtle in concrete. In 1976, a Fort Worth, Texas construction crew was breaking up some concrete they had set just a year before. Within the broken concrete, a living green turtle was found in an air pocket that matched the shape of the creature's body. If it had somehow got in when the concrete was poured a year earlier, how did it survive over that time? Ironically, the poor turtle died a few days after its release.

There are no easy explanations for these incredible anecdotes. Those who found the creatures nearly always state that there was no discernable way - no small hole, crack, or fissure - by which they could have gotten into these pockets inside the rock. And the pockets are always about the exact size of the animals within - some even bearing an impression of the animal, as if the rock had been cast around it. Even if a fertilized egg of a toad or frog had somehow seeped into the rock cavity, what did it live on? What did it eat, drink and breathe to grow, in some cases, to full size? Being unable to move inside the rock, how did its muscles develop so that it could hop away upon being released? Geologists tell us that rock is formed over thousands of years. How old are these animals?

The most incredible of such anecdotes was recorded in 1856 in France. Workmen laboring in a tunnel for a railway line were cutting through Jurassic limestone when a large creature stumbled out from inside it. It fluttered its wings, made a croaking noise and dropped dead. According to the workers, the creature had a 10-foot wingspan, four legs joined by a membrane, black leathery skin, talons for feet, and a toothed mouth. A local student of paleontology identified the animal as a pterodactyl!

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Telepathy with Animals

There is a great leap, however, from saying that animals can communicate their needs in the familiar way that they do to saying that they can do so through telepathic words and pictures (just as telepathy among humans is not an everyday event for most people). Animal communicators believe that it's not only possible, but that they can talk to animals in this way at will.

Raphaela Pope recounts a consultation she had with a German Shepherd named Helga: "Helga's person, Joan, told me that Helga had a very severely lacerated left ear. She wanted to know how the dog had injured herself. When I tuned into Helga, she showed me a picture of digging at the wooden fence surrounding her property. Helga tried to get her face under the fence, only to run into an old rusty piece of barbed wire. Later, Joan asked Helga to show her exactly where the wire was. Helga led her to the spot and Joan found the old rusty wire wrapped around the base of the fence!"

Animal communicators have many such anecdotes, some of which you can read about in such books as Penelope Smith's Animal Talk and When Animals Speak. But why talk to animals? For many animal communicators, it's their business. As consultants, they offer their services to help customers solve problems they are having with their pets. "This type of service is most beneficial to you and your pet when there are problems going on," says The Fur People. "Behavior is one way an animal can demonstrate its unhappiness, and illness is another."

HOW YOU CAN DO IT

Can you talk to your pet? Animal communicators provide these tips:

• "I discovered that one of the secrets to effective communications with nature is to be clear within yourself, emotionally and mentally - and to put a little emotion into the communications. Allow yourself to notice, listen with your heart, speak with feeling, then trust that you're connecting." - Laura Simpson, from "The Art of Noticing Your Pet."
• "Picture in your mind what it is you are trying to get them to do or what you are trying to tell them. Send them your emotions and feelings too. If you intend that your message gets there, it will. Try not to lean over your animal in anticipation of hearing what they are saying. Sit back, relax, and let the animal's thoughts and feelings come to you." - Interspecies Telepathic Communication
• "The basic steps of telepathic animal communication are creating a state of quietness and receptivity in order to actually receive the communication, sending the message, and receiving the answer." - Raphaela Pope

How do you know your experience is genuine? Raphaela Pope offers this answer: "People new to animal communication often ask, 'How can I be sure the answer came from the animal? It feels like I'm making it up.' If you are in a quiet and relaxed state, not putting out a lot of thoughts or emotions, the information that comes to you must be from the animal. Because it comes to you through your mind, or your emotional sense, or your visual perception it may feel like it is from you. You will know it is not when you get an unexpected answer."

Laura Simpson adds: "Many folks will want to discount the communications, thinking their imagination is working overtime... but if you listen closely - and with your heart - you'll soon discover that your imagination knows what it's doing... the images and words come up as they do for a reason and if you will respond in trust that your insights are valid, you'll find that your pets, and in fact all of nature, have quite a story to tell you!"

Still, since the pets cannot verbalize their problems and illnesses, how do we really, really know if we, or an animal communication we might hire, is understanding what the animal might be trying to communicate? The proof of the pudding, as they say, is in the eating. If the problem or illness goes away or improves after such communication... maybe there's something to it after all.

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Telepathy with Animals

Animal communicators - specialized type of psychics - believe that meaningful telepathic communication is possible with your pet. They say even you can do it.

"I broke my ankle in five places," writes the unnamed author at Interspecies Telepathic Communication "I was lying in bed in a great amount of pain when I heard, 'I know we come from different cultures, and maybe you don't think I can help you, but if you just pet me, I will take away your pain.' I heard these words in my head as clearly as someone speaking to me. I opened my eyes to find my angel cat Kisa on my pillow and looking right at me. I knew it was her. I did pet her and my pain did go away! I slept comfortably for the first time since the accident."

The author is a self-professed "animal communicator," one of a growing number of people who say they have the psychic ability to communicate telepathically with various animals. "Anybody can communicate with animals," the author claims, and says it's done through imaging. "Animals communicate in pictures, feelings, emotions, and concepts. Sometimes you get a picture of what the animal is trying to communicate, but many times it is an emotion or concept that you pick up."

WHAT IS ANIMAL TELEPATHY?

"The animal doesn't actually open its mouth with words flowing out verbally," say the animal communicators at The Fur People, "but animals do amazingly communicate non-verbally. Many times I receive information in words; or feelings in my body; or pictures and symbols which the animal gives me through telepathy."

Telepathy between people and animals is not much different than telepathy between two people, according to Raphaela Pope. "The dictionary defines telepathy as 'communication of impressions of any kind from one mind to another independent of recognized channels of sense,'" writes Pope at her What is Telepathic Communication with Animals website. "My experience is that telepathy is the universal language of the animal kingdom. I believe that humans are actually born with telepathic ability, but tend to suppress or forget it when they learn spoken language. Telepathic communication assumes that animals are sentient beings with their own purposes, desires, choices, and manner of looking at the world."

Webster's defines sentient as "responsive to or conscious of sense impressions," and by that definition it would have to be agreed that most animals are sentient beings. And certainly many have desires and make choices. But can they communicate those desires and choices? Surely, a dog can communicate that it wants to go outside by standing by the door and scratching at it or barking.

And incredible discoveries have been made about the minds and communicative abilities of some higher primates, most notably Koko, a gorilla who was taught American sign language and now has a vocabulary of more than 600 words. "Talking" to her caretakers through sign language and a special Macintosh computer, Koko is able to articulate not only such basic desires as what and when she wants to eat, but how also how she "feels" about many things in her life.

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